Harvey McMillan [me14hm]

Look North’s Business correspondant, Dannie Hewson, expresses her concerns for the future. Can social media be considered as a viable news outlet, with its frequent lack of objective views and reporting restrictions?

The launch of the book ‘The Mediated City: The News in a Post-Industrial Context’ is underway! Written by seven scholars from the School of Media and Communication here at the University of Leeds. Chaired by Stephen Coleman. The panel includes authors of the book, a newspaper editor and a BBC Look North correspondant.

We are going into a short comfort break now until 16:15. After the break, we have Rountable 1 ‘Making Media in the North’ chaired by Beth Johnson, and a the launch of the book ‘News in the Mediated City’ chaired by Stephen Coleman. Great hearing from you on Twitter, so stay involved using #meccsa2017 !

MeCCSA would like to point out that there is a small error on page 10 of the programme – the ‘Cultures of Beer’ Panel will begin at 17:45, not 15:45 as the programme suggests! It will be taking place in Seminar room 1.17, Clothworkers North.

Helen Kennedy (University of Sheffield) presents some fascinating figures on data in her talk “Data Matter: a manifesto for studying living with data ‘from the bottom up'”. How many of you knew we sent 24 billion text messages every single day?!